TY  - CHAP
AU  - Silpi Basak
AU  - Monali N. Rajurkar
AU  - Ruchita O. Attal
AU  - Sanjay Kumar
Mallick
ED  - Silpi Basak
Y1  - 2013-05-29
PY  - 2013
T1  - Biofilms: A Challenge to Medical Fraternity in Infection Control
N2  - Health Care associated infection (HAI) is an emerging problem worldwide. HAI causes increased morbidity, mortality and average length of stay of  the patient in the hospital. HAI also imposes economic burden on the patient, health care set up and also State and National Health care system. 
It has been estimated that 5  10 % of all hospital admission suffers from HAI even in developed countries. But 30% of HAI are preventable, if we follow the infection control practices properly especially hand hygiene while giving patient care. Hence, in this book importance has been given to Infection Control practices along with emerging trends of HAI due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter species etc.
BT  - Infection Control
SP  - Ch. 3
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/55649
DO  - 10.5772/55649
SN  - 
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-24
ER  -